Race Quotes

When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race.

Winning a rowing race is not like winning anything else. Here's my theory: you're facing backwards, so you're looking at the people you're beating--and there's something exquisite about that.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

No matter what race we are, what ethnic background, sexual orientation, or what views we may have, we are all human. Unfortunately, not all humans see it that way.

I didn't say that the Jews are inferior. I didn't even maintain they are a race. I merely saw that the mixture of different cultures didn't work.

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.

Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.

I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.

Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.

Unless the human race realizes with a passion and reverence beyond thought or words its inter-being with nature, it will destroy in its greed the very environment it is itself sustained by.

The arms race is based on an optimistic view of technology and a pessimistic view of man. It assumes there is no limit to the ingenuity of science and no limit to the deviltry of human beings.

The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty, race, geography and local politics.

Life is not a race, but a journey to be savoured each step of the way. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.

I'm very happy because I won a lot. I've won races and lived in a world that just gave me joy, so I remember it very positively.

Acceptance of race mixture was more developed in Arab culture than in Jewish culture.

Although the doctrine of innate equality of the race has been proclaimed, yet so far as woman is concerned it has been a standing falsehood.

The human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have contrived to make it exactly the opposite of what it is in the New Testament.

When you go through all your life processing and abusing your hair so it will look like the hair of another race of people then you are making a statement and the statement is clear

I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.

How few young men realize that their success in life depends more upon what they are than upon what they know. It is self-esteem that has brought the race this far.

Liberals can't just come out and say, they want to take more of our money, kill babies, and discriminate on the basis of race.

I repeat that superior races have a right [to establish colonies], because they have a duty. They have the duty to civilize inferior races.

It is not how you start the race or where you are during the race-it is how you cross the finish line that will matter.

Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.

The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman

Of one thing we can be certain: every person we see - no matter the race, religion, political beliefs, body type, or appearance - is family.

Running from your problems is a race you'll never win.

SEO is a race, not a sprint.

I'm so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.

During a race where everyone holds their own truth, the finish line is a surprise.

People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.

Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves.

We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but to its triumph over them.

Respect the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat parallel to yours - to ours. He is your ally. He is our ally, be he at the other end of the world.

Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.

Methods and conclusions formed by half the race only, must necessarily require revision as the other half of humanity rises into conscious responsibility.

The bickering and fighting and hating that women do with each other - it's going to kill us as a race of people.

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

Races don't fall in love, genders don't fall in love: Individuals fall in love. We all should be free to marry the person that we love.

When the race gets hard to run. It means you just can't take the peace.

I think everyone is bi, right? There's no such thing as sexual orientation, or race, or gender. Those are all obsolete man-made concepts.

There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government.

My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.

Street food, I believe, is the salvation of the human race.

Genius has no age, no country, no race; it belongs to mankind.

Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions the human race and its future.

I pray God that we shall never use our physical prowess to oppress the human race, but we will use our strength, physically, morally and otherwise to preserve humanity and civilization.

History is the zoology of the human race.

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.